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Class Outline

Thursday 11/10/11
  1. Review syllabus
  2. MLA format
  3. Review literary terms
  4. Review British History until the 17th Century
  5. Steps to analyzing literature
  6. Steps to analyzing poetry
  7. Review Final Paper and Presentation
  8. John Donne
    1. Silently read biography of (p. 600)
    2. Read The Flea (p. 603)
    3. Read The Good Morrow (p. 603)
    4. Read Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) (p. 604)
    5. Read The Sun Rising (p. 606)
    6. Read Air and Angels (p. 609)
    7. Read Break of Day (p. 609)
    8. Read The Funeral (p. 615)
    9. Read Elegy 19 (p. 618)
HW: Read Selected Poems - Read Air and Angels (p. 609), Break of Day (p. 609), The Funeral (p. 615), Read Elegy 19 (p. 618). Analyze these poems to identify meaning, tone, purpose and symbolism.

Thursday 11/17/11
  1. Review any syllabus questions
  2. Review Homework
    1. Group Assignment: In groups of three, choose one poem and analyze.
    2. Ben Johnson
      1. Silently read biography (p. 638)
      2. Read Epigrams (p. 640)
      3. Read To My Book (p. 640)
      4. Read On My First Daughter (p. 640)
      5. Read To John Donne (p. 641)
      6. Read On My First Son (p. 641)
      7. Robert Herrick
        1. Silently read biography (p.665)
        2. Read Delight in Disorder (p. 667)
        3. Read To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (p.669)
        4. John Milton
          1. Silently read biography (p. 693)
          2. Read Paradise Lost, Book 1
          3. Read Paradise Lost, Book 2
          4. Read Paradise Lost, Book 3

Thursday 12/1/11
  1. Paradise Lost
    1. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 4
    2. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 5
    3. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 6
    4. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 7
    5. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 8
    6. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 9
    7. Summarize Paradise Lost, Book 10
    8. Read Paradise Lost, Book 11
    9. Read Paradise Lost, Book 12
    10. John Dryden
      1. Silently read biography (p. 879)
      2. Read To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (p. 910)
      3. Read A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day (p. 911)

Thursday 12/8/11
  1. Alexander Pope
    1. Silently read biography (p. 1120)
    2. Read The Rape of the Lock (p. 1136)
    3. Jonathan Swift
      1. Silently read biography (p. 971)
      2. Read Gulliver’s Travels (p. 974)

Thursday 12/15/11
  1. Gulliver’s Travels
    1. Watch cinematic version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfDcILlJS-o&feature=related

Thursday 12/22/11
  1. William Blake
    1. Silently read biography (p. 1406)
    2. The Lamb (p.1412)
    3. The Chimney Sweeper (p. 1414)
    4. The Sick Rose (p. 1420)
    5. The Tyger (p. 1420)
    6. A Poison Tree (p. 1424)
    7. William Wordsworth
      1. Silently read biography (p. 1484)
      2. We Are Seven (p. 1487)
      3. Strange fits of passion (p. 1507)
      4. She dwelt among untrodden ways (p. 1508)
      5. I wandered lonely as a cloud (p. 1537)
      6. Me heart leaps up (p. 1538)
      7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        1. Silently read biography (p. 1609)
        2. The Rhime of the Ancient Mariner (p. 1615)


Thursday 1/5/12
  1. Final paper due
  2. Final presentations